Comments by "Luredreier" (@Luredreier) on "The Economist Who (Wrongly) Thought Gay People Made Cities Richer" video.

  1. The thing is that companies with a diverse group of people employed (even if qualifications are otherwise identical) actually ends up being statistically more creative and productive (the difference is small, but noticable in the data). Any difference between workers helps. Even just gender. If you mix men and women you have more creativity and produce more parents etc then with just men or just women. Likewise with different ethnic groups (bigger effect then mixed genders). It's not just the creative people either like bohemians. It's difference in general, even if both groups are conservatives, but from different countries and different religions for instance. Heck, even different economic classes seems to help a tiny bit. It's possible that it has something to do with how differences change how we interact with people. Also, we're talking about averages here. It's not something that applies 100% of the time. Sometimes certain groups of people just really don't work well together for whatever reason... But that happens in non-diverse groups too. But yeah, research has shown that statistically if you mix people they're more productive and creative.
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  2. 4:18 It's not just the matching that's a benefit. The diversity has a advantage in terms of its influence on social interaction and creativity as well. Be that different genders, cultures or anything else.
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